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A Morning Prayer . . 7 

Aspiration 16 

Day By Day 28 

Diligence 12 

Each And All .... 27 

Eventide 30 

For You And Me ... 5 

Giving 20 

Here And Now .... 17 

Journey ings 29 

Little By Little .... 26 

Morning And Evening . . 8 

Morning Thoughts ... 15 

Opportunity 19 

Present Joys 14 

Purpose 10 

Some Time 23 

Step By Step 18 

The Gates of Morning . . 9 

The Mission 21 

This Day 11 

TTiis Moment 22 

To'Day 6 

Toward The Light . . . 24 

True Victors 25 

While On Our Way . . 13 



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FOP. YOU AND ME 



FOR YOU AND ME 

For you and me, the sho\A/er and shine. 
Sua moon and star, that beam above. 
The flower and fruit of tree and vine. 
And all good gifts are yours and mine — 
All things that speak of love. 

Our own shall seek us out, we know. 
And bring our fondest heart's desire: 

The sunset flame, the morning glow. 
The charm of music, sweet and low. 
The hearthstone's friendly fire. 






Fond fellowship and frank good cheer. 
With faith abundant, buoyant, free: 
Glad memories of the yesteryear. 
And golden morrows shining clear 
Are all for you and me. 



FOK YOU AND ME 

TO-DAY 

No vain regrets for days gone by; 

No vain resolves for days to be; 
But let me, heart and hand, apply 

To tasks this day has brought to me. 




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FOPv YOU AND ME 

A MORNING PRAYEPv 

OK may I be strong and brave to-day. 

And may I be kind and true; 
And greet all men in a gracious way, 
\A/ith frank good cheer in the things I say 
And love in the deeds 1 do. 

May the simple heart of a child be mine. 

And the grace of a rose in blooms- 
Let me fill the day with a hope divine 
And turn my face to the sky's glad shine, 
\A/ith never a cloud of gloom. 



\A/ith the golden levers of love and light 

I would lift the world, and when 
Through a path with kindly deeds made bright, 
I come to the calm of the starlit night. 
Let me rest in peace. Amen. 




FOPv YOU AND ME 



MORNING AND EVENING 

The hours are long in the morning. 
With their skies and hopes so bright; 

But here is a \A/ord of warning — 
They are short along toward night. 

So if there's a task you wish to do. 
Oh, get at your work right soon. 

For a morning hour is well worth two 
That come in the afternoon. 




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YOU AND ME 



THE GATES OF MORNING 

NA/hat is the day for when it smiles 
Up through the gates of morning. 

Guiding the \A/orld through golden whiles, 
AH of her ways adorning? 

So we may rise with a fresh, strong heart. 
Each with a will to do his part; 
Glad he may give in \A/ord and deed 
All that a NA/aiting \A/orld may need; 

Tasks that shall mellow all the miles. 
Bright \A/ith a hope's ne\A^ horning: 

That's what the day's for \A/hen it smiles 
Up through the gates of morning. 






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FOR YOU AND ME 

PURPOSE 

Not hoNA/ little \A/e may do. 
But how much that's brave and true! 
That must be the earnest thought 
Into each day's purpose wrought: 

Not how much we can get out 
Of the world around about. 
But how much we can put in it. 
For the joy of men, each minute* 




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FOPv YOU AND ME 

THIS DAY 

'Tween all the summers that have been 

And all the years to be. 
This golden day comes smiling in. 

To bring their best to me. 
The love^wreathed memories, so fond, 

I've gathered on my way. 
And all the hopes that lie beyond. 

Are mine, all mine, this day. 

The yesterdays, so good and kind. 

The morrows, all so fair. 
Like roses in a garland twined. 

The morning's brow shall wear. 
My breast with exaltation swells 

And to my soul I say: 
''Go lift the world with strength that dwells 

Within these arms, this day!" 



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FOPv YOU AND ME 

DILIGENCE 

FonA/aird! Not with hesitation: 
Bravely to the task, just now! 

They who spurn procrastination 
Soon shall find the golden "Hona//' 

There will be no tears of sorroNA/, 
Care shall softly steal away. 

If the good we'd do to-morro\A/, 
yVe shall rise and do to-day. 




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WHILE ON OUR WAY 

Day by day we shall build and brighten. 

Making a pleasant \A/orld more fair; 
Day by day we shall lift and lighten 

All of the burdens men may share. 
It is for us to loose the fetter. 

Roll the stone from the path a\A/ay; 
Making the good of the NA^orld still better. 

Day by day. 



Day by day in our sphere of duty 

There shall shine forth as \A/e march along. 
More of the spirit of love and beauty. 

More of the joyous strength of song. 
Each glad morn, with a faith new-given. 

We shall go smiling on our way. 
Leading us nearer still to heaven. 

Day by day. 



FOR YOU AND ME 

PRESENT JOYS 

They 'mid serener vistas faire 
NA^ho hold this vision clear: 

Our heaven is never then and there 
But always now and here. 




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MORNING THOUGHTS 

NA^hen this good day is done, oh, may 
I to myself in candor say — 
In counting up its golden gain — 
"It was not lived in vain." 

Somewhere between the rosy flower 
Of dawn and evening's twilight hour. 
From some worn traveler's path, oh, may 
I roll a stone away. 

May I, in kindly word or deed. 
Bring solace to some one's deep need; 
Make some one's sense of truth more true. 
His sky a fairer blue. 

This day — it cannot come again. 
Therefore all I would do for men. 
Let mc !o now, in Heaven's smile, 
Tha .ifc may be worth while. 



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FOFk YOU AND ME 

ASPIRATION 

Feel the part you play's XA^orth while! 

Hold yourself as though 
What you do fills every mile 

\A/ith a kindlier glow: 
Then fare forth and With a smile 

Strive to make it sol 




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FOR YOU AND ME 

HERE AND NOW 

Not of the future, far a\A/ay, 
Shall we be thinking most to-day; 
Nor of the vanished yesteryear. 
But of the golden Now and Here, 

If With a vision that glads the breast. 
Feeling our faith in all things best. 
We to our neighbour are just and true. 
So shall he be to his neighbour, too. 

It is enough to serve and teach 
Them that the hand and voice can reach; 
Thus as we shape our purpose right. 
So shall the whole wide world be bright 



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FOPv YOU AND ME 

STEP BY STEP 

These lines are fashioned, rhyme on rhyme 

And word by word, one at a time. 

And so it is the wide \A/orld through; 

There are so many tasks to do. 

Yet all of them come not at once. 

But \A/ith the days and \A/eeks and months 

And long, glad years in which we build 

The purpose of our being filled 

\A/ith bonds of faith and truth and love. 

And hopes that reach the skies above. 




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FOPv YOU AND ME 

OPPORTUNITY 

Ever and always kind fortune is knocking. 
Calling at each and at everyone's door. 

Bringing her keys and new portals unlocking. 
Bidding us rise a fresh world to explore. 

Not with some yesterday, vanished forever. 
Drifted the chance of a lifetime away; 

No door is closed to the ones who endeavor: 
Rise and lay hold of the tasks of to-day! 

Here is the place for the valiant to labor. 
Now is the time to reach out for success: 

Opportunity means that our friend and our 

neighbour. 
We strive this good hour to gladden and bless. 



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To scatter our blessings is best: it is living! 

The harvest is greater, the wider we've sown: 
No one was ever the poorer for giving: 

He loses the most who keeps most for his own. 



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F O Pv Y O JIJ AND ME 

THE MISSION 

Do the duty lying nearest. 

Make the most of each to-day. 
Take the path that seems the clearest: 

Let's be up and on our way! 
We shall learn to do by doing; 

Practice serves to give us skill 
And, our simple tasks pursuing. 

We shall rise to nobler still. 

Step by step and hour by hour. 

Patient purpose gains the prize: 
So the bud becomes the flower. 

So do mighty cities rise. 
Do the duty lying nearest. 

Make the most of each to-day; 
Take the path that seems the clearest: 

Let's be up and on our way! 



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FOPv YOU AND ME 

THIS MOMENT 

Life will be golden all the way 
If we shall live it right this day! 
The worth of it all depends on how 
We use this moment, here and now. 




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FOK YOU AND ME 

SOMETIME 

Do not wait to do it "sometime/' 

Do it noNA/. 
Vague and far a\A/ay is "sometime/' 

You'll alloNA/. 
Speak a gracious word of greeting 
To whomever you are meeting. 
And, remember, time is fleeting; 

Do it noNA/. 

That good deed postponed till "sometime," 

Do to-day; 
Round it up, instead of "sometime," 

Right away. 
Every golden-jewelled minute 
Hides a precious treasure in it; 
\A/ith glad strength be wise and win it 

\A/hile you may. 



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FOK YOU AND ME 

TOWARD THE LIGHT 

Do the kind thing, just this minute, 

('Tis not hard to do 
Once we're ready to begin it.) 

Make that minute two. 
Five, ten, fifteen, then an hour, 

\A/ith high purpose rife; 
So well gain in grace and power 

Till we crown a life. 




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FOPv YOU AND ME 

TRUE VICTORS 

"Be great!" Ambition says, "Be great! 

Climb higher still nor stop. 
Content with your achieved estate. 

Until you reach the top. 
Unless the prize you own is best. 

To fate be unresigned!" 
Yet beating in each honest breast 

A warm heart says: "Be kind." 

"Be strong!" Ambition says, "Be strong! 

Press on and onward still: 
\A^hatever gifts there are belong 

To valiant souls who will. 
While men of modest purpose, may. 

Determined mortals, must!" 
Yet every honest heart will say: 

"But first of all be just." 



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FOR YOU AND ME 

LITTLE BY LITTLE 

One word at a time and the 

volume is written. 
One step at a time and the 

journey is done: 
And the great golden ladder that 

reaches to heaven 

\A^e mount on our kindnesses, 
one by one. 




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FOPv YOU AND ME 

EACH AND ALL 

If only each of us would make 

One person kind and tender 
And be — \A/ith heart and soul a\A/ake — 

Of Truth a stanch defender. 
Oh, straight\A/ay, we should see the race 

Escaping every fetter 
That Error weaves, and, in true grace. 

Grow gladder, still, and better. 

One person! Surely you and I 

Can do that much, my brother. 
If only we shall fondly try. 

Each one, to help the other. 
So, you make you as you should be 

NA/hile I, myself, shall chasten. 
And — happy prospect! — we shall see 

The world toward goodness hasten! 



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FOPv YOU AND ME 

DAY BY DAY 

Every day is as a page. 

Clean and smooth and white. 

On whose surface I engage. 
Every morn, to write 

All 1 do and think and say 

Through the golden - houred day. 

Am I ever happy, quite, 
NA/hen the day is done? 

Did 1 live the hours aright, 
\A/as my purpose won? 

Strove I proudly for the good 

And as nobly as 1 could? 

Not in languorous content 

Does our safety dv^ell. 
Nor within a purpose spent 

Doing all things well; 
But within the valiant will 
Bent on doing better still 



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FOPv YOU AND ME 

JOURNEYINGS 

Out of the old paths to the new; 

Out of the yesterdays, fondly set 
\A/ith half-wrought purpose, good and true. 

Into the morroNA/s, braver yet. 

Out of the old days, blessing-heaped — 
Faith and hope and love to spare — 

Out from the glad fields we have reaped 
Into the meadows green and fair. 

Out of the old ways that have led 

By verdant valley and sun-crowned hill: 

\A/ith blue skies smiling overhead. 
Seek we the vision, clearer still. 



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FOK YOU AND ME 

EVENTIDE 

The day is done: now to my rest. 

And, putting out my light, 
A calm content within my breast, 

1 bid the world: "Good-night" 



\A/^hile slumber soft shall bind my eyes. 
My soul fresh hope shall borrow. 

Till from my happy rest 1 rise 

And bid the world: "Good-morrow. 




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